ReSharper 7.0 is Released

Ladies and gentlemen, a fresh official ReSharper release has finally arrived! Download ReSharper 7.0, the new major version of the awesome Visual Studio productivity tool.

ReSharper 7.0 is an important update for all .NET developers, bringing more ways to refactor, inspect, and generate code. Early MS technology adopters should also appreciate support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, as well as support for Metro style application development for Windows 8.

Full integration with Visual Studio 2012 while maintaining support for Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. For obvious reasons, we’ve been testing on Visual Studio 2012 RC and we haven’t had a chance to verify smooth integration with Visual Studio 2012 RTM. However, as soon as RTM is available to us, we’ll see if it contains any breaking changes, and if we find anything, we’ll be quick to roll out a minor update. (See How Exactly ReSharper 7 Supports Visual Studio 2012.)

@David
A part of our products provide 1 year of free upgrades – this includes TeamCity, RubyMine and PhpStorm for example.
However, IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper are licensed per major version, giving you minor updates within the purchased version but not major upgrades.

I am also unable to upgrade my 6.x license to 7.0. I am trying to upgrade a personal/C#/3.x-6.x license to a 7.0 C# license. After entering my old license key, I am presented with an empty cart. I am able to upgrade to a full 7.0 license, but I really have no use to the VB.NET part of the product.

A while back you ran a poll on Facebook to determine whether what licence model the community wants for ReSharper. The majority of the feedback was in favour of a yearly subscription model as this makes it easier to budget for and you can get discounts for yearly renewals etc. It seems like you guys haven’t made the change as it is still licenced per major version?

I think I’m having the same problem as @Duane. I’m trying to upgrade from 6 C# edition to 7 C# edition, both personal. I choose the options on the upgrade page, click “upgrade now” and get redirected to a page to enter my current licence key. I enter my key and then get redirected to another page that just says my basket is empty. I can’t see any way from that page to add an upgrade to the basket.

Same problem trying to upgrade 6.x personal license (c#) to 7.x personal license (c#), initially asked me for my key, entered it in, and now the cart that pops up is blank and the only options for purchase it provides me are IntellJ IDEA, Resharper 6.1 Full (Commercial license) and YouTrack unlimited user pack.

I think it’s outrageous that a newly licensed 6 doesn’t get a free upgrade to 7. We purchased mid-May. I’m also upset that UK users have to pay about 20% more than US users too (at that’s not tax, just piss-taking). I think my company has had enough of being ripped off and it’s time to evaluate whether we get value from this tool.

Only purchases after June 2012 are eligible for free upgrade?! Are you kidding me? Our company has been paying for the tool for many years now, but this can easily turn if the licensing policy situation does not change.

As a side note – have there been any performance improvements for VS2010?

@Carel
Yes, we haven’t made the change yet. We didn’t actually plan doing anything revolutionary for this particular release but we’ll be investigating opportunities further because as you’re correct to point out, a substantial amount of customers favor a subscription model. The problem is getting it right both for you, customers, and for us, the vendor.
You can imagine that abruptly changing a licensing model for one of a company’s revenue driving products is not quite an easy move: you really have to find the safest path )

@Steve O
There’s a complex story with exchange rates for UK customers. Not sure we can do anything significant with this but we’ll take a look.
If you feel like you’re being ripped off, please contact a JetBrains sales rep and discuss the situation.
As to whether you’re getting value from the tool, we’re naturally interested that you were getting the full value. Please let us know if you need help evaluating and possibly fine-tuning the way you’re using ReSharper, we can arrange that.

@Petr K
Can you please clarify your situation to your JetBrains sales rep?
They’re usually helpful and understanding if there’s anything really weird going on in terms of payments.
How exactly would you like the licensing policy to change?
As to performance improvements for VS2010, please take a look at this list which does contain fixes relevant for VS2010.

@Jura Gorohovsky Last time I contacted sales about the exchange rate I was met with indifference and disinterest. I would happily pay in USD and save my company 20%, but for some unknown reason this isn’t possible. As far as I can tell you aren’t a US company so I don’t know why there is such a huge disparity in price. Worse still, I’m offered an upgrade price in USD, which I take to accounts to get approved, and when I go to make the upgrade, I’m shifted to GBP at a significantly higher price with no option to actually pay the USD price originally offered. I have to go and get approval from accounts again and try an explain to them why the price has suddenly gone up 20%.
I’ll try contacting JetBrains sales again and see what they can offer me, but I’m not in the least bit hopeful. I suspect I’ll have to tell my team to uninstall and manage without.

Hello,
I’m experiencing a significant performance hit with the new Resharper 7.0 in Visual Visual Studio 2010 Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel. Specifically any “right-click” within VS takes at least 2-3 seconds. In addition, code navigation, typing delays are supper annoying. We’ve upgraded from 6.1 version and now I can’t even do work. I tried “Suspending” Resharper and performance greatly improves. We just bought 26 licenses and I hear the same complaints from other developers. I’ve uploaded VS Profile dotTrace data and hope that there is a fix for this. Thanks

@Alan
Thanks for letting us know and for profiling your VS instance. This will certainly help us solve your problem. If you have submitted the snapshot along with contact data, we’ll find your snapshot and investigate as soon as possible.
Two quick questions:
* Have you tried the latest bugfix release, 7.0.1? If you have, is it any better than the initial 7.0 release?
* Do you have any Visual Studio plug-ins installed in addition to ReSharper?